Health and Wellness

Course Number: AH 198 Section 1 Instructor: Jerry Royka
COLLEGE OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
Course Objectives
A. General Outcomes
Students who complete this course will:
1. Identify individual responsibilities and self care practices that promote physical health. (NUR 2, 4)
2. Describe characteristics of healthy persons and self care practices that promote mental health. (NUR 1)
3. Identify the role and function of commonly available community health services and the availability of health education resources and instructional aids. (NUR 1)
4. Actively participate in at least twelve (12) hours of fitness activities (NUR 1)

B.Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Identify individual responsibilities and self care practices
a. Define health and wellness
b. Describe how predisposing factors beliefs, attitudes and significant others affect behavior changes
c. Identify current issues in health and health care
d. Investigate behavior change techniques and apply them to personal behavior change
2. Describe characteristics of healthy persons and self care practices
a. Define psychosocial health in terms of mental, emotional, social and spiritual components
b. Identify and utilize positive steps to enhance psychosocial well being
c. Identify the special stressors that affect college students
3. Search for and use available resources and services that are useful to the student in need of assistance or instruction related to personal health
4. Participate in fitness activities
a. Experience various ways of maintaining physical fitness
b. Describe the rules or regulations for various physical activities
c. Demonstrate basic ability in performing various physical activities

W #	Monday Workouts	Wednesday Seminar topic
1		Introduction to course (take a good look at yourself)
2	Stretching and good posture	Health Behavior Assessment
3	Breathing and centering tai chi	Personal Fitness
4	Tai chi set guides	Nutrition
5	Walking for Fitness Walk one mile in 15 minutes	Nutrition and Exercise Video 5%
6	Aerobic movements Hand in weeks 1-6 journals 5%	Managing your weight (weight and BMI reading) Calorie counting project 5%
7	No School Nuclear Survivor Day	Teams to prepare for midterm aerobic exam
8	Mid-term Practice	Mid-term aerobic teaching 10%
9	Video Workout Selections	Psychosocial Health
10	Boxing Basics	Managing Stress in college life
11	Hip Hop Dance video	Suicide prevention Hand in research paper 10%
12	Walk a 12 minute mile Hand in weeks 7-11 journals 5%	Reproductive Health Issues (STDs)
13	swing and Latin dance video	Infectious diseases
14	Yoga and bridging	Chronic diseases video worksheet 5%
15	No School Constitution Day	Re-evaluate yourself and give semester feedback Hand in Healthy choices exercise sheet Do your take home exam for homework
16	Final Exams Hand in whole semester journals 10% Hand in final exams 10%	Final Grades

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Healthy Choices Lab AH198

C Each student must participate in 12 activities to improve their health. A physical fitness class will be offered in the classrooms every Monday. Students must choose at least 9 different kinds of activity to fill in their chart. For example all 12 entries can not be “walking” or “aerobics” ALL students must attend the first 3 Mondays fitness classes.
† After that, students can choose from a variety of campus activities, intramural teams, community events and clubs to fill in the remaining 9 sessions. Students who want to fill their hours “off campus” must have a witness/ or fellow participant prove that they did an hour of healthy choice activity. To get a passing grade on this lab, students must have at least 3 out of class activities.

Healthy choice activity	Date of participation	Witness or attendance sign in
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Out of class Activities: Fill this in using the categories above.

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Don’t forget to include what you did in lab in your weekly journals to help you get to your healthy behavior goals.
Oct.02/11